HID questions

Here is some reading on the subject of light output,http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/blue/bad/bad.html blue lights and hids etc.

I did not have good luck IMO. I thought they gave me less light output as far as length down the road. I was living in Colorado with lots of potential elk on the road. I had both the plug-n-play's and then I also had the ebay hid projectors. My experience was that I got less light output as far as distance is concerned. Yes they are bright at 10 feet, but it wasn't enough of an output down the road where I really wanted to see. I will say that mine were 8000k 35w plug-n-plays, and then the projectors I tried were 35 watt 6000k's. I went back to halogen PIAA bulbs. The stock housing of the headlights scatters the plug-n-plays quite a bit. I had to aim them down so much so as to not blind oncoming traffic that it wasn't visible far enough down the road. There are alot of people that will say they are great, others will say not. You can only decide for yourself once you do or don't get them. OEM HIDs are the way to go. Those I do agree are kicka$$.

I do agree. Some people just dont like HIDs and some do. If you do get them I definitely suggest the 55w kits cause they are much brighter. You obviously get the best light output and least glare with a projector however I dont think our housings are all that bad at glare and distrubute pretty evenly. But you still wont see the perfect v pattern beam on the ground like in the cars with factory projectors and HIDs. Also you do lose more visible light as you go up in kelvin. If you want to do it for looks and brightness like me I would go with the 8000k 55w which will be just slightly bluish or if you go with 35w then 6,000k. Im mainly comparing lights from DDM Tuning I should also mention, but it stands true for most HIDs. Stock halogen lights are around 4300k in color and the yellowish color gives the most visible light. So your brightest HIDs will be around 5000k or 6000k. 3000k will give some good visible light but that will be yellow.

I attached a color chart from DDM Tuning. Just note that this is a color chart for 35w kits. If your looking at 55w just subtract 2000k or so. For example I think 55w 8000k HIDs look like 6000k or 5000k 35w hids. So basically the 55w kits wash out a lot of the color and make the lights more white in color.

Hope this kind of helps.

EDIT: Sorry I just realized the post above me already had a DDM Tuning chart in it. Anyways the one i attached is a little different and should still help some. My bad